Neuralink engineers spent 72 hours at a patient's home for setup

A man with ALS has a brain implant that turns his thoughts into speech at about 50 words a minute, and he still couldn't start it by himself. He can't use his hands, so somebody else had to tap "record" for him. Neuralink engineers spent 72 hours in his home to fix that. By the time they left, he was taking his own phone calls. That button was really a person, by the way. A family member, a caregiver, whoever happened to be in the room every time he wanted to say something. The team shipped 30+ versions of the app in those three days, which Neuralink says is 2-3 weeks of progress. The first fix lets the system tell on its own when he's trying to speak and when he's just sitting there, so nobody has to tap anything. Then they piped his decoded voice straight into iPhone calls, injected…